COPYRIGHT, MICHEL DE VERTEUIL, LECTIO DIVINA WITH THE SUNDAY GOSPELS.
'Mr Minister, I must remind you that you are not God, you are just a man. One day your name shall be merely a faint
scribble on the pages of history, while the name of Jesus Christ shall live forever.'
The words of Archbishop Tutu to a government minister who had threatened the Church.
Lord, when we have committed ourselves to a noble cause
we experience something of what the eleven felt
when they were reunited with Jesus on the mountain in Galilee.
We may have been defeated,
let one another down as they had let down Jesus,
our group depleted, as theirs without Judas.
But we are here together on this mountain
and we know that no power in heaven or on earth
will conquer what we stand for.
We can go into the world
teaching all nations to respect the values we believe in;
whatever happens to us, now or in the future,our cause will live for ever.
